| Author |
Quotes |
| Walter Bagehot | Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances. |
| Walter Lippmann | The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. |
| Washington Irving | Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. |
| Werner Herzog | Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world. |
| William Bolitho | General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. |
| William Of Conches | "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so. |
| William Of Conches | Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. |
| William Ralph Inge | It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. |
| William Safire | Never assume the obvious is true. |
| Winston Churchill | We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. |
| Woody Allen | Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. |
| Francis Bacon | For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast. |
| Francis Bacon | Man was formed for society. |
| Francis Bacon | Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. |
| Francis Bacon | There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. |
| Francis Bacon | Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. |
| Francis Bacon | All rising to great place is by winding stair. |
| George Herbert | If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty, what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
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